Reflections in a serpent's eye : Thebes in Ovid's Metamorphoses /
Ovid's extraordinary story of Thebes' founding and bloody unravelling spans Books 2 and 3 of his epic poem, the Metamorphoses. His bizarre refractions of the well‐ordered community mirror Ovid's own Rome and the mythohistory of its origins, most particularly as framed in Vergil's...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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